What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 7/15/2021 at 3:38 PM, T3551ER said:

Loki season finale. Fantastic. I feel like it's getting a fair amount of hate in the press for serving a setup for the rest of the Marvel Phase IV stuff instead of being a definitive season end but I totally disagree. Given that there is a promised S2 it's a perfect, cliffhanger episode that still brings main narrative themes, character arcs, and plots to a natural feeling conclusion, while setting up where things go next. 

It's also incredibly exciting (to me) to see the caliber of thing that Marvel is pushing forward with this - this was an incredibly well acted, nuanced, fascinating series that entertained but still managed to be contemplative about its characters, had bombast but also felt incredibly personal. It's also an argument for why a tight six hours is a better format than a feature film - it allows room for development and a story to breathe, while also remaining taut. 

In a way, it feels like what Feige is (amazingly) doing is providing the sort of depth, interweaving, and coherence that existed in the comics for a long time into the medium of film/tv - something that seems like it'd be easy but is as much an art as anything. The ending frankly makes me super excited for all the "next things" - it's got that "oh, crap, now I need to buy the spider man comics 'cause I just gotta know how that's all going to fit in" sort of feeling I've not felt outside of the comic genre. 

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Jonathan Majors... damn man. I mean. damn. Dude crushed it. A dialogue heavy episode could have been an utter bore in the wrong person's hands but I was hanging on every word. And I still can't tell for sure what his endgame is. Utterly unnerving, and if this is a "benevolent" variant of Kang/Immortus/whathave you then I can't wait to see what he does with the eventual "real" Kang we'll end up meeting (or his numerous variants). Hot shit. 

 

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It was great, and the best of the MCU Disney+ shows so far, having been filmed and produced entirely during COVID, it didn't have to be re-written midseason like WandaVision, and Falcon/Winter Soldier did. 

the first episode of this series is the heather tallchief case which i remember pretty well from unsolved mysteries and eventually on amw so this is essentially "her version" of events. it's just a little overly produced but over sensationalized but entertaining nonetheless

I'm having fun with the second season of black summer, the only zombie show worth watching. So far it's much better than the first season.

I'm a few episodes into this now. one of those shows that makes you mad while watching. truly disturbing this surgeon was able to get away with this as long as he did. Baldwin's performance so far has been remarkably restrained, while Christian Slater is overacting the hell out of it.

  On 7/22/2021 at 3:49 PM, zero said:

 

 

I'm a few episodes into this now. one of those shows that makes you mad while watching. truly disturbing this surgeon was able to get away with this as long as he did. Baldwin's performance so far has been remarkably restrained, while Christian Slater is overacting the hell out of it.

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This just makes me want to watch more Fringe 

  On 7/10/2021 at 9:24 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Just started season 2

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Tim and Lonely island are spinning some real gold here. Could be a subforum.

True Detective: Season 3

nah..

‘Was’ watching Animal Kingdom. Done a season and a half, and kind of losing interest. Part of it appeals to me but another part of me thinks I should be spending my viewing time much more wisely.

  On 7/24/2021 at 4:45 PM, beerwolf said:

‘Was’ watching Animal Kingdom. Done a season and a half, and kind of losing interest. Part of it appeals to me but another part of me thinks I should be spending my viewing time much more wisely.

After season 2, it really went downhill

I think the bit when our bunch of coked up clowns go for a bit of paint gunning and rob a high security military base was beginning of the end for me. 

had no idea this was even coming out yesterday, but decided to check it out because of all the hoopla surrounding the showrunner

firstly: most of the voice casting doesn't work. the guy playing adam doesn't sound convinced he knows what's going on, and lena headey (playing evil-lyn) doesn't sound convincing. sarah michelle gellar is the most beautiful woman in the world so no complaints there.

second complaint is exactly what everyone is complaining about. according to kevin smith, this is based off the early 2000 cartoon because the one that anyone thinks of is owned by filmation. so anyone going into this without knowing that might be in some serious disappointment. 

Sophie: A Murder in West Cork

probably not the intention of it, but this made me fall head over heels in love with Cork. 

great little series, recommended 

I'm about 2/3 of the way through season 2 of WKRP

  On 7/24/2021 at 5:58 PM, Nebraska said:

had no idea this was even coming out yesterday, but decided to check it out because of all the hoopla surrounding the showrunner

firstly: most of the voice casting doesn't work. the guy playing adam doesn't sound convinced he knows what's going on, and lena headey (playing evil-lyn) doesn't sound convincing. sarah michelle gellar is the most beautiful woman in the world so no complaints there.

second complaint is exactly what everyone is complaining about. according to kevin smith, this is based off the early 2000 cartoon because the one that anyone thinks of is owned by filmation. so anyone going into this without knowing that might be in some serious disappointment. 

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I'm actually enjoying this!

  On 10/3/2020 at 11:30 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Finished season 1 of Ted Lasso, the gf and I liked it, Sudeikis is a buffoon, but a sweet one.  Always love seeing UK on a show.

i keep hearing this show is positive, optimistic and everyone enjoys it. i think its not for me.

this was fascinating. it's like every cliche of being in a cult wrapped into one long story.

there is one particularly interesting part where the leader (big tony himself) tells his acolytes to slap the bejesus out of this kid, and each member, afraid that he would mention this transgression to God, decided to put in extra effort in the slap. by the time the third person was getting his slap in, the kids entire head was numb, she had a ringing in her ear and was completely disorientated. it was supposed to go down about 12 or so times, but barely got to the 6th guy

  On 7/27/2021 at 2:44 PM, Nebraska said:

this was fascinating. it's like every cliche of being in a cult wrapped into one long story.

there is one particularly interesting part where the leader (big tony himself) tells his acolytes to slap the bejesus out of this kid, and each member, afraid that he would mention this transgression to God, decided to put in extra effort in the slap. by the time the third person was getting his slap in, the kids entire head was numb, she had a ringing in her ear and was completely disorientated. it was supposed to go down about 12 or so times, but barely got to the 6th guy

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I remember feeling empathy for the Waco guys, and even moments of being charmed by the Heaven's Gate lot while watching those docus, but this pair of sinister charlatans and their schtick was entirely repulsive on every level. 

And what's more, the church is still going http://www.alamoministries.com/content/english/ 

Currently half way through the 3rd season of Cobra Kai    

Unexpectedly very enjoyable  

this was fun- though i can't help but feel that it could've ended after 3 episodes

Just started this, Cohen tries to educate the two Q-anons he lived with in the cabin on their conspiracy theories, and gets Hillary Clinton to do a video chat with them, lol

Interested to see this adaptation , I’m surprised the budget is so high. Has there ever been a show before with a 99% female cast?

Rewatching Veep, brilliant even if some of the latter seasons got slightly inconsistent. Peter McNichol Laugh / 10

Fake or Fortune. Very enjoyable indeed. Bruce and Mould undertake detective work to find out wether pieces of art are genuine or not. Highly recommend.

  On 8/8/2021 at 3:11 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Interested to see this adaptation , I’m surprised the budget is so high. Has there ever been a show before with a 99% female cast?

 

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I'll give this a go though. I did follow the comic for a while, lost interest halfway through. 

There's an adaptation of Wheel of Time coming this November. While I think the books are terrible now, I did enjoy them once (the first 6 books?) so I'm curious on how they'll manage this adaptation. I struggle with fantasy shows and films at the best of times, only managed the first season of GoT.

No buzz or trailer is a bit odd, considering it was supposed to come this August, and has been pushed to November. 

  On 8/12/2021 at 4:50 PM, Shimon_Shimon said:

I'll give this a go though. I did follow the comic for a while, lost interest halfway through. 

There's an adaptation of Wheel of Time coming this November. While I think the books are terrible now, I did enjoy them once (the first 6 books?) so I'm curious on how they'll manage this adaptation. I struggle with fantasy shows and films at the best of times, only managed the first season of GoT.

No buzz or trailer is a bit odd, considering it was supposed to come this August, and has been pushed to November. 

 

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Just starting to read this series now.  Was hoping to get through it before the series came out but that shit ain’t happening haha.    
 

300 pages into book 1 and thoroughly enjoying it.